[Watch] Bigg Boss OTT2 Winner Elvish Yadav Issues Clarification On Spat With Fellow YouTuber Maxtern

New Delhi: In a bizarre clarification video captioned ‘First plan and play victim’, Elvish Yadav, the winner of Bigg Boss OTT 2, admitted to having beat up his fellow YouTuber Sagar Thakur aka Maxtern, for allegedly threatening to “burn” Yadav and his parents alive at home.

Yadav was booked for allegedly assaulting Maxtern at a shopping mall in Gurugram’s Sector 53, on Friday, police officers aware of the matter said on Saturday. In his First Information Report (FIR), Thakur claimed, “Elvish Yadav tried to break my spine so I become physically disabled.”

In the video on his Instagram handle, Yadav claimed that Thakur had been “poking” him on social media since he walked out of the Bigg Boss OTT house in August last year. During this time, the two even shot together, he said.

However, after eight months of being “poked” on Twitter and other platforms, Yadav said he decided to meet and talk to Maxtern.
On the day of the incident, Yadav called Thakur home for a meeting. “I told him to meet me around midnight once I landed in Delhi,” he said in the video.

However, Thakur shared the screenshot of their chats on social media, further provoking him. “I had sent him the location of my home on WhatsApp… I told him guests are treated like Gods at our home and I would never beat him in my home. I told him not to be scared….,” Yadav said.

“But Maxtern made some statements about my family and threatened to burn me and my family alive. I abused him over this and told him I would come and meet him wherever he was,” he added.

Finally, they met at a garments shop owned by Thakur’s friend, Yadav said, adding that it was set up. There were cameras hidden at various angles with microphones to capture the attack and Maxtern was also wearing a microphone, he added, alleging that the YouTuber knew what would unfold and how he would use it on social media.

Yadav also admitted that he threatened to kill Maxtern, but mentioned that it was said in the “heat of the moment.”

The comments against his family enraged him, Yadav said, as he asked his followers to comment under the video how they would have reacted to such threats. “Should I have given him a matchstick and told him to burn me and my family?” he said.

The YouTuber also said he went with nine people but added that Maxtern was not alone either. There were four people with him but none came to his rescue, Yadav said, adding that his aides tried to break up the fight.

The OTT star also blamed the “Left” and the “anti-Hindu” lobby for scheming against him because he speaks for the Hindus.

A social media clash between two YouTubers – Elvish Yadav and Maxtern – transcended into reality, seriously injuring Thakur and landing Yadav in a police case. The entire incident was mentioned on Maxtern and Yadav’s social media pages, and also in a video, where Yadav, along with his friends, was seen approaching Maxtern before relentlessly beating him at the garments shop. Some were seen trying to break up the fight.

Maxtern has more than 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube, 850,000 followers on Instagram, and 240,000 followers on X.